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General Information

The calculator supplied for use in examinations is the Casio FX-83GT Plus. Please note that from 1 January 2014, the old model previously provided, the Casio fx-83ES, will no longer be used. A guide on how to use the fx-83GT Plus, can be found here. Demonstration models of the FX-83GT Plus are available to use at the Undergraduate Office.

Please do not use red or green pens on your exam scripts. These colours are used by the markers.

Past Exam Papers

All Exam Papers

The papers provided here are up to date as of the relevant examination that candidates sat in April/May/June. If any corrections were made to the paper during the examination, where possible the corrected paper is provided. If later revisions of the examination papers are received, the date of upload will be noted next to the relevant paper.

Mock Exam Papers

Year 1

Notes:Questions featured in this mock examination paper are not new, and have been adapted from previous years' papers.The mechanics questions in this mock paper are from 2012; the solutions for the 2012 paper are available here.

Year 2

Past Comprehensive Papers

Our Comprehensive Papers have a long tradition in the Physics Department, being the main method by which students are tested on their grasp of how to apply the few laws of physics in mostly unfamiliar situations. Being a test of ‘thinking on your feet’, the Comprehensives are highly valued by employers and research groups, so a good result is sure to give tutors something to shout about in writing references! By their nature, they are quite difficult, and the only route to success is practice, practice, practice. I know what I’m talking about – I had to do them myself some years ago! To help you on your way, we have compiled a complete archive of recent Comprehensive Papers for you to try for yourself. Some papers have model solutions so you can see the style and detail of solution expected.

Corrections

Model Solutions

MODEL SOLUTIONS TO EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

These model answers are provided as a guide to students as to what is expected in a good solution to an examination question. Due to the process by which they have been compiled it is unavoidable that there will be a few cases for which the model answer given here does not match the question asked in the final form of the examination paper.

We don't have control over the exams run by other departments (e.g. Computational Neuroscience is organised by Bioengineering) and as a result you might find that we don't have solutions for some papers. Other missing solutions could be due to being unable to find them or lecturers requesting that they are removed. We only host the last 3 sets of model answers.

NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS TO EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

Below are the numerical solutions to some the Year 1 Physics. This is so that students using examination questions for practice can check that they have achieved the correct answers. Full worked solutions are not given here, just the numerical answers. Every effort has been made to ensure that these numbers are accurate.

During the examinations season, if you have an urgent enquiry (for example, on the day of an exam you arrive in College and are unsure where the exam is taking place) and the Examinations and Information Officer is not available, please contact the Undergraduate Office:

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